antennal
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Migratory locusts differ from other insects in the anatomical structure of their olfactory brain, the antennal lobe, which receives and processes olfactory information from the antenna.
From Science Daily • Jun. 18, 2024
You’ll have ants passing each other along a trail, making antennal taps, like Morse code: Hey, we gotta go this way, or go here for foraging.
From National Geographic • Aug. 6, 2017
The descendants of Ann and Anton were vigorous and fruitful, and it soon became quite fashionable to display one’s antennal legs at full extension.
From Scientific American • Apr. 15, 2012
He looked about him at his handsome neighbors, flexing their superbly hairy antennal legs.
From Scientific American • Apr. 15, 2012
The centres for the antennal nerves form ganglionic swellings on the oesophageal connectives.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
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